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Police later said that one male, in his late twenties, has been charged with murder.

Tarrant, from Grafton, NSW, Australia, also posted a 74-page manifesto posted online in which he claims to be from a “working class, low income family” — and calls out the Sydney gang rapes, terror attacks and the “unarmed invasion” of Western cultures as driving factors in his war on non-whites.

Some of the worrying gear found inside the terrorist's car (Image: Reuters)

Titled “The Great Replacement: Towards A New Society” the document shared online declares the attacker’s motives and some details of his background, without using a name.

In it he writes of himself: “My parents are of Scottish, Irish and English stock.”

Noting he had a regular childhood with little interest in schooling and that he didn’t attend university, he adds he made some money from Bitconnect then went travelling — most recently working “part-time as a kebab removalist”.

Claiming he is making a stand for his people in the face of rising immigration and falling Western birth rates, the writer says he is taking revenge for terror attacks and “enslavement … by Islamic slavers”; and that he wants to incite violence and directly intimidate immigrants to leave Western countries.

Armed cops arrive on the scene of the horror attacks (Image: Reuters)

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He claims his life was changed by a terror attack in Stockholm in 2017, when a truck driver ran down five people — and says he wants particular vengeance for one of those victims, partially deaf 12-year-old Ebba Akerlund.

He also accepts his his own actions are terrorism and racially inspired.

He moved to New Zealand temporarily and wrote of his obsessions with racial purity, claiming the attack would “show the invaders that our lands will never be their lands”.

The mass killer also wrote that he began planning the attack “roughly two years in advance”, and chose the final location three months prior to the attack.

He was known within his childhood town of Grafton as someone who was dedicated to fitness and ran free athletic programs for children.

The attackers tried to shoot worshippers as they fled from the terror inside the mosques (Image: Getty)

In Tarrant’s graphic live stream, he can be seen parking his vehicle outside the Masjid Al Noor mosque, before taking two guns and walking a short distance to the entrance of the building.

He then opens fire and repeatedly shoots worshippers, leaving well over a dozen bodies in one room alone.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that the victims ranged in ages, with Police Commissioner Mike Bush confirming 49 people had died.

Following the devastating events in New Zealand, NSW Police issued a statement, assuring the public there is no ongoing or specific threat to any mosque or place of worship in Sydney or across New South Wales.

Officers have increased patrols and senior officers have reached out to the community and religious leaders to provide support and reassurance.